Swastika girl: Jo Cox’s death is ‘unfortunate’... but don’t let it stop us voting to leave the EU
SWASTIKA-covered Vote Leave activist Eva Van Housen caused further outrage yesterday by describing the killing of Jo Cox as an ‘unfortunate’ event that should not stop people voting for Britain to leave the EU.
Meanwhile, a neo-Nazi group sent a number of shocking tweets in support of the MP’s killer Thomas Mair. The National Action group posted messages including: ‘Our thoughts go out to Thomas Mair #Britain-First #JoCoxMP’ and, ‘Don’t let this man’s sacrifice go in vain. #JoCox would have filled Yorkshire with more subhumans.’
It was revealed earlier this month that Ms Van Housen, who has several tattoos of Nazi symbols, had distributed Vote Leave campaign materials with her boyfriend, a former British National Party [BNP] official, in Leeds.
Commenting on Mrs Cox’s death on Facebook, Ms Van Housen said: ‘Whilst it is unfortunate for this to happen, we must not let this deter us from voting out of the EU… do not let emotions override facts and log-ic, that is exactly how you fail.’
Accusing the Remain side of exploiting Mrs Cox’s death for political advantage, she said the media was ‘turning her death into a huge attack on the Brexit campaign… [it] has NOT changed any of the FACTS and REASONS as to why we NEED to leave the EU’.
Her boyfriend Mark Collett weighed in: ‘The murder of Labour MP Jo Cox is being used as an emotional tool to attack Vote Leave. This is how desperate the establishment is; they will do or say anything in order to con people into voting to stay in the EU.’
Ms Van Housen also compared Mrs Cox’s death to that of pro-EU Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh – who was killed in 2003 on the eve of her country’s vote on accepting the euro.
She forwarded a message on Facebook yesterday saying: ‘In 2003, Sweden was about to vote out of Europe. On September 11, 2003, three days before the vote, pro-euro Anna Lindh was brutally stabbed to death.
‘Debate was suspended in the media and replaced by eulogies for the politician.
‘The polls reversed and Sweden adopted the euro.’ However, the 22-year-old was twisting history. The Swedish people rejected the euro – but the country remains in the EU, as leaving was not the question put in the referendum. Ms Van Housen declined to be interviewed.
Meanwhile, the secretive neoNazi group National Action used Twitter to spread their hatred.
One message, next to a cartoon of two dark-skinned apparent terrorists wielding weapons, read: ‘This is the types #JoCox welcomed into our lands. She and her ilk have blood on their hands.’
Another group, the Notts Casual Infidels, caused outrage by linking to a Guardian article about Mrs Cox’s killing with the comment: ‘We knew it was only a matter of time before we take it to the next level. We have been mugged off for Far to [sic] long’.
An unnamed user of the site went on to make vile comments about the newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Notts Infidels have since removed the Facebook post about Mrs Cox and apologised.